slicing functionality for strings / Python suitabilityforbioinformatics

[Tom Anderson]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Tom Anderson wrote:
>
>> There's a special hell for people who override builtins.
>
> which is, most likely, chock full of highly experienced python 
> programmers.

You reckon? I've never felt the need to do it myself, and instinctively, 
it seems like a bad idea. Perhaps i've been missing something, though - 
could you give me some examples of when overriding a builtin is a good 
thing to do?

tom

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